My experience has been very different. I'm quite happy to stay with older technologies for a long time, continuing to innovate in them long after other people aren't interested in hearing about those innovations. This means I am really good at going deep in a technology and learning it to fluency. Because I've learned so many technologies in my time, I'm not afraid I will not be able to pick up a new one, when it's time for me to do so.

At the same time, I can let the early adopters feel the pain of working out the kinks of a new technology and document their findings. I can evaluate the "best practices" put forward by all the wanna-be thought leaders and determine which ones resonate in the context of more universal best practices I've learned over many years. And then when it's time for me to learn the new technology, I go straight for something that's going to hold up and not waste time with a steep learning curve.

My experience with perpetual early-adopters is they don't have the attention span to learn any one of them really deeply.